linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentaion:trace Add the git web link to view it on the browser

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Message-ID: <20231205112608.76927866@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Tue, 5 Dec 2023 11:26:08 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
Cc:     mhiramat@...nel.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        mark.rutland@....com, corbet@....net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentaion:trace Add the git web link to view it on
 the browser

On Tue,  5 Dec 2023 09:25:17 +0530
Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com> wrote:

> Thought this might help people to see the entire source tree on browser and
> explore.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst
> index 23572f6697c0..e768a4c91452 100644
> --- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst
> @@ -3731,3 +3731,5 @@ Currently, -mfentry is used by gcc 4.6.0 and above on x86 only.
>  More
>  ----
>  More details can be found in the source code, in the `kernel/trace/*.c` files.
> +Also you can see the trace source tree on browser `Git Link
> +<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/kernel/trace>`__.
> --
> 2.35.8

I'm not a big fan of git links to code in the documentation tree. This is
more for those that want to play with it (compile and install), so I don't
think a web link is useful here. I rather have people download the code and
build it.

-- Steve